Strategic advice to leverage new technologies

Social BI and analytics has many unique challenges: unstructured data, Big Data, separating useful from useless data, data analysis and presentation, and so on.

Beauty and the Beast

Small is beautiful in software. But that beauty conflicts with "the beast" -- the many rules, regulations, processes, stage gates, committees, compliance imperatives, and audits that inevitably accompany large-scale software projects. Big Agile can reconcile the systemic conflict between the two, preserving the beauty while taming the beast.

Agile approaches have clearly proven themselves with small, colocated teams developing reasonably straightforward solutions.

Big Agile is "agile as far as the eye can see." It is not "one Big Agile organization." The distinction becomes clear when you consider the context of size: team versus whole organization.

In 1962, NASA's programmers made a small but drastic mistake.

One of the major patterns we frequently observe is an organization that "plays agile" instead of being agile. The pattern follows a basic theme.

Since publication of the Cutter Business Enterprise Architecture Executive Report "Establishing the Business Architecture Practice: A Case Study" (Vol. 15, No.

No matter how disciplined a company is about its IT governance, the average enterprise has many years of legacy applications in its portfolio that need to be rationalized.